ABSTRACT
A voyage with three tall ships, the Penelope, admiralls the Marchant Royall, vice-admirall, and the Edward Bonaventure, rere-admirall, to the East Indies, by the Cape of Buona Speransa, to Quitangone, neere Mosambique, to the iles of Comoro and Zanzibar on the backeside of Africa, and beyond Cape Comori in India to the iles of Nicubar and of Gomes Pulo (within two leagues of Sumatra), to the ilands of Pulo Pinaom, and thence to the maine land of Malacca 2 . Begunne by M[aster] George Raymond, in the yeere 1591, and performed by M[aster] James Lancaster; and written from the mouth of Edmund Barker of Ipswich (his lieutenant in the sayd voyage) by M[aster] Richard Hakluyt.
